Word: julians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list of patrons and patronesses includes: Professor and Mrs. Julian L. Coolidge, Dr. and Mrs. Fred O. Nolte, and Dr. and Mrs. Fritz M. Marx. Prices have been set at $1.50 a couple and $1.00 stag...
...When Julian Howard's father took his family to the 1,000-acre farm he had bought sight unseen, Julian hoped that their moving days were over. Mr. Howard was a bookish, improvident schoolteacher whose every move was to the Promised Land. Mrs. Howard was a philosopher with a weak heart. Julian, the only child, was a level-headed youngster who saw through his father's grown-up dignity to the helpless human being behind it. Mr. Howard, full of the intellectual's passion for the land, and a small pocketful of savings, was no match...
Meantime, however, Julian was learning fast. He learned by working for their neighbor, Henry, a dirty Pennsylvania Dutchman, but a good farmer, with a periodic weakness for the bottle. Thanks to Henry's precepts and sober example, Julian was able to save his father's farm from absolute ruin, but it was hard going...
Then his mother died, and his father was less use than ever. To narrow Julian's world still further, aging, piglike Henry got himself a wife, a pert young thing who had no use for Julian. He was reduced to the companionship of the squatters' colony down on the Bend. Though Julian and Henry's wife thought they disliked each other heartily, little by little they changed their minds. Almost before Julian knew it, he was her lover. He hated the deception, hated her caution that would not leave a comfortable respectability to run away with...
...First Lowell House Party seems to have been a success. Parents expressed their enjoyment of the weekend and their satisfaction with living conditions at Harvard. The apparent success of a similar plan at an Oxford college inspired Julian Coolidge in this, his latest innovation. When he first proposed the House Party several years ago, it was found to conflict with certain hotel codes of NRA relative to the housing of paying guests...